u/TahDigThief

People lost their lives raising the Iranian flag! This is the least we could do for them! Millions of Iranians will watch Iran’s WC game! Them seeing the true Iranian flag waved high in the thousands will put a smile in the faces of millions of Iranians! Which is why the regime is so desperate to threaten and PAY FIFA TO BAN THEM!

Once the flags are sneaked in, by the thousands there is nothing a few security guards can do to take those flags away from us! We have done nothing wrong and tell them to call the cops which the cops won’t turn up over a random flag…! WE WONT LET THE REGIME GET WHAT THEY WANT! Spread the word to any Iranian you know going/planning to go to the games to get creative when it comes to sneaking the flags in! This ain‘t the airport, they don’t have body scanners and they won’t ask people to take their cloths off (especially women) to see if people are sneaking in anything in!

The islamic republic has built one of the most sophisticated state-sponsored online propaganda operations in the world. This post compiles documented and verified reports from credible institutions to show how it works.

There is an entire government infrastructure behind it

This isn't a few individuals posting online. The regime has formal, structured organizations dedicated to this. One of the most powerful is Seraj, the wealthiest IRGC media cartel, whose main task is influencing public opinion by producing content for social media. It runs branches in all 31 Iranian provinces, in coordination with Basij headquarters, running training courses where hardliners learn how to promote online campaigns, boost specific hashtags, and attack designated targets. The vast majority of Seraj-related accounts use fake profiles, and each operator is believed to run multiple accounts simultaneously.

Source: https://iranwire.com/en/journalism-is-not-a-crime/109692-irib-fars-serajinside-the-iranian-regimes-propaganda-machine/

They disguise themselves as ordinary people from other countries

A 2026 report from Clemson University's Media Forensics Hub identified a network of 62 fake accounts across X, Instagram, and Bluesky linked to the IRGC. The accounts masqueraded as two distinct groups: Spanish-language profiles pretending to be Latina women from Texas, California, Venezuela, and Chile, and English-language profiles pretending to be Scottish independence supporters and Irish nationalists. None were who they claimed to be, and they posted behind stolen or AI-generated profile pictures.

These accounts focused on divisive local topics until late February 2026, when they all simultaneously pivoted to pro-regime war messaging, a behavior researchers described as operating "in the 2016 Russian sense of the word".

Source: https://www.ms.now/news/iran-propaganda-network-social-media

They operate fake news websites disguised as legitimate outlets

According to Emerson Brooking, strategy director of the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, Iran distributes state propaganda through fake news websites, inauthentic social media accounts, and proxy media networks that present regime talking points as independent reporting.

The creation of thousands of fake websites and social media accounts is something IRI officials openly admit and discuss using.

Source 1: https://www.politifact.com/article/2026/mar/23/iran-disinformation-campaigns-influence-operations/
Source 2: https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/how-longstanding-iranian-disinformation-tactics-target-protests

Meta has repeatedly caught and removed their operations, and names Iran as the second worst offender after Russia

Meta has explicitly warned that after Russia, Iran conducts the most covert influence operations on its platforms, attributing this activity to threat actors backed by the IRGC.

Most recently: Meta disrupted an Iran-linked operation that used sophisticated fake personas on Instagram to build relationships with U.S. users before introducing political messaging. The operation began on X in 2024 before expanding to Facebook and Instagram in 2025.

Source: https://therecord.media/iran-instagram-influence-operation-disrupted

They use AI-generated images and deepfakes to fabricate military victories and public support

Iranian government-linked networks have produced AI-generated imagery and videos depicting things like smoke rising from buildings and missile strikes on foreign cities. These are then amplified by Russian and Chinese state media ecosystems. The New York Times identified over 110 unique deepfakes conveying pro-Iran messages in just a two-week period.

Source 1: https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2026/03/19/deepfakes-on-the-front-lines-irans-ai-disinformation-campaign/
Source 2: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13569775.2024.2374593

They use coordinated networks to manufacture false consensus

During the #MahsaAmini protests, when visible disinformation failed, the regime switched to "invisible" tactics, flooding the information space with so much uncertainty that people gave up trying to determine what was true. Making every narrative seem potentially fake was itself the goal.

Source: https://www.clingendael.org/publication/invisible-side-manipulation-how-iranian-regime-suppressed-mahsaamini-persian-twitter

The islamic republic has been committing serious crimes against the Iranian people for decades now. This post is a collection of documented and verified reports from credible international institutions.

Please share this post widely. The regime works hard to bury these facts, and every person who sees them is one more they failed to silence.

The islamic republic is one of the world's top executioners

At least 975 people were executed in Iran in 2024, a 17% increase from 2023, and the highest number recorded in over two decades. Over 90% of these executions were not announced by the authorities.

Amnesty International reported that Iran was responsible for 74% of all recorded executions worldwide in 2023. These executions have disproportionately targeted Iran's Baluch ethnic minority, who make up only about 5% of the population but account for 20% of recorded executions.

Between January and late August 2025, authorities executed at least 841 people, nearly double the pace of the same period in 2024.

Sources:

- https://www.iranhr.net/en/reports/42/
- https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/08/20/iran-alarming-surge-executions
- https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/MDE1302772025ENGLISH.pdf

Crackdown on protests (a documented pattern of mass killing)

Amnesty International has documented a long-standing pattern of human rights violations across every major protest wave: December 2017-January 2018, November 2019, July 2021, November 2021, May 2022, and the Woman Life Freedom uprising of 2022. In November 2019, security forces unlawfully killed hundreds of protesters and bystanders during five days of protests while authorities imposed a near-total internet shutdown.

A UN fact-finding mission found that as many as 551 protesters were killed by security forces during the 2022 protests, among them at least 49 women and 68 children, with most deaths caused by firearms. The mission concluded that many of the violations "amount to crimes against humanity, specifically those of murder, imprisonment, torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence, persecution, enforced disappearance and other inhumane acts".

For the January 2026 protests: according to a former Ministry of Interior official who had previously been an IRGC member, long-term preparation for the crackdown included "marking and identifying elevated locations for sniper deployment", "ideological and psychological preparation to kill", and "training criminal elements". Khamenei himself had ordered security forces "to crush the protests by any means necessary".

Sources:

- https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2026/01/what-happened-at-the-protests-in-iran/
- https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/8/iran-committed-crimes-against-humanity-during-protest-crackdown-un-says
- https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/11/iran-stop-sentencing-peaceful-protesters-death-say-un-experts

Torture and prison conditions

Human Rights Watch documented that Iran's security forces raped, tortured, and sexually assaulted detainees during the 2022 protests. Investigators found cases across Kurdish, Baluch, and Azeri minority regions. In seven of the ten cases investigated, detainees said security forces tortured them to coerce confessions. Some survivors attempted suicide after their release; others required surgery for their injuries.

According to Amnesty International's most recent annual report, torture, enforced disappearance, and incommunicado detention remain widespread and systematic. Punishments that amount to torture under international law, including flogging, blinding, amputation, crucifixion, and stoning, are retained in Iranian law and continue to be imposed.

The U.S. State Department's 2024 Human Rights Report documents the use of cruel and prolonged torture of political opponents in named facilities including Evin Prison, Rajai Prison, Qarchak Prison, and others. Prison authorities routinely deny medical treatment to political prisoners as a form of punishment.

Sources:

- https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/04/22/iran-security-forces-rape-torture-detainees
- https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/middle-east-and-north-africa/middle-east/iran/report-iran/
- https://www.state.gov/reports/2024-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/iran

Targeting of women and minorities

Amnesty International documents that the regime announced plans to deploy a trained force of 80,000 members to enforce the hijab, while the head of the judiciary ordered prosecutorial and intelligence bodies to treat unveiling as a "flagrant crime". Scores of businesses were forcibly shut for serving unveiled women. Ethnic minorities including Ahwazi Arabs, Azerbaijani Turks, Baluchis, Kurds, and Turkmen face widespread violations including discrimination in access to education, employment, housing, and political office.

The UN Fact-Finding Mission found that Kurdish and Baluch minorities experienced the highest number of deaths and injuries during the 2022 protest movement, the direct result of long-standing discrimination. Gross violations documented include unlawful deaths, extrajudicial executions, arbitrary arrests, torture, rape, and enforced disappearances, many of which amount to crimes against humanity. Children belonging to ethnic and religious minorities suffered particularly egregious violations, including killings, arrests, and sexual violence.

Human Rights Watch has concluded that the regime's decades-long systematic repression of Baha'is amounts to the crime against humanity of persecution. In 2024, two-thirds of imprisoned Baha'is were women.

Sources:

- https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/middle-east-and-north-africa/middle-east/iran/report-iran/
- https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/08/minorities-iran-have-been-disproportionally-impacted-ongoing-crackdown
- https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2025/country-chapters/iran

Economic crimes against the population

According to World Bank data, Iran's inflation rate averaged 42.2% from 2021 to 2023. Prices for essential goods including food, clothing, and housing have risen sharply for years. The middle class has shrunk substantially due to a combination of gross domestic mismanagement and international sanctions, with economic misery either triggering or significantly fueling every major protest wave since 2017.

As of March 2025, estimates range from 22% to 50% of Iranians living under the poverty line, a stark increase from 2022. A 2013 Reuters investigation found that Supreme Leader Khamenei personally controls a financial empire built on property seizures worth $95 billion.

In 2000, Iran's economy was larger than those of the UAE, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia. Today, all three have surpassed Iran with GDPs more than three times larger, a collapse driven by sanctions, currency devaluation, and decades of mismanagement and corruption.

Sources:

- https://bti-project.org/en/reports/country-report/IRN
- https://www.reuters.com/investigates/iran/#article/part1
- https://www.iranintl.com/en/202505141830